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May 17, 2013(KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The National
Auctioneers Association (NAA)
has announced that United
Country Real Estate’s global
auction marketing team,
United Marketing Services,
has received awards in
numerous categories in the
2013 National Auctioneers
Association Marketing
Competition. Through this
annual contest, which is
presented in partnership
with USA TODAY, the nation’s
most successful auction
marketing groups compete for
coveted awards highlighting
the most innovative and
effective auction marketing
campaigns. This year marks
the fifth consecutive year
that United Country has been
recognized as award winners
in the competition. |
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Prestigious G.I. Jobs
Magazine List Places
International Firm in Elite
10% of Franchise Brands
May 14, 2013 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate has once again been
ranked in the top 10 percent
of all franchises nationwide
and named a 2013 Military
Friendly Franchise® by G.I.
Jobs Magazine. United
Country is among only 10
percent of franchise brands
nationwide to receive this
honor. The 2013 Military
Friendly Franchise® list,
which represents the top 10
percent of the nation’s
franchises that are doing
the most to recruit military
veterans, is determined
through exhaustive research
by the G.I. Jobs Military
Friendly Franchise team. The
research includes a
comprehensive survey of more
than 4,000 franchises. |
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May 7, 2013 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The Land Report
recently named United
Country Real Estate among
the top real estate land
brokerage companies in the
nation in the article,
“America's Best Brokerages.”
Closing over $2 billion in
land sales annually, United
Country is the largest land
brokerage listed in this
special report, which
evaluated the nation’s
leading land brokerages
based on 2012 sales results.
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Will Provide Rural
Homebuyers a Variety of Loan
Solutions
April 22, 2013 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) –
United Country Real Estate,
the nation’s largest
marketer and source of
non-urban and lifestyle real
estate, has announced that
PHH Mortgage has become the
company’s preferred provider
of mortgage services. |
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International Real Estate,
Auction Firm Reiterates its
Commitment to Continuing
Education
March 21, 2013 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country
auctioneers and real estate
experts arrived in full
force at the Annual National
Land Conference for the
REALTORS® Land Institute in
Las Vegas March 18 through
20. United Country Real
Estate, the largest national
traditional and auction,
lifestyle and rural real
estate company, was a proud
platinum conference sponsor,
and the firm’s affiliates
made up roughly 10 percent
of those in attendance. |
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February 11, 2013 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest fully integrated
auction and traditional real
estate company, announced
impressive growth in 2012
with 43 new franchise
offices and multiple
mergers. This expansion has
allowed the lifestyle and
rural real estate firm to
expand its reach into the
non-urban property market
even further.
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February 5, 2013 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Over ninety
percent of buyers start
their real estate search
online, and in 2012 they
showed record interest in
lifestyle and rural real
estate. According to United
Country Real Estate, the
nation’s largest seller of
non-urban real estate,
visitor traffic at their
over 3,500 websites
experienced a dramatic rise
in 2012 and early 2013. |
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January 28, 2013 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) –
There is no doubt about it …
rural real estate is hot.
According to United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest broker and
auctioneer of non-urban real
estate, sales experienced a
dramatic rise in 2012,
resulting in a 27.6-percent
increase in annual sales
volumes versus 2011.
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November 5, 2012 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Auction Services lent its
support to the National
Future Farmers of America
85th National FFA Convention
& Expo by conducting their
annual FFA Alumni Benefit
Auction and Tailgate on
Wednesday, Oct. 24 in
Indianapolis, Ind. The
auction offered 10
items and raised over
$63,000 in less than 40
minutes. |
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September 17, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) –United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest seller of lifestyle
real estate, has joined
forces with FYICode, the
only national
voice-activated,
hands-free mobile marketing
system. |
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August 21, 2012 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Agroganadera
Pinilla, S.A., the owner of
Hacienda Pinilla Beach
Resort and Residential
Community, Guanacaste, Costa
Rica, announced today that
it will offer qualified
investors and developers a
unique opportunity to
participate in an auction of
the Hacienda Pinilla
to accelerate the
realization of the vision
for the project. |
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United Country Real Estate’s
Reports Triple-Digit
Increases in Ranch Segment
August 3, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest seller of non-urban,
lifestyle real estate
nationwide, reported a
dramatic increase in sales
volume for the month of July
over
2011 numbers. Ranch land was
of particular notice with
triple-digit growth. |
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Opens New Affiliate Offices
in Dominical, Pavones
August 1, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, America’s
largest seller of lifestyle
real estate in the United
States and Central America,
has continued its 2012
expansion with 35 new
franchises in the U.S. and
the opening of two new
offices in the Costa Rica,
bringing their network size
to 511 offices. |
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Mike Jones Honored at
National Auctioneers
Association Convention July
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July 27, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Little did anyone
know back in November of
1978 that a skinny kid
wearing red suspenders
pumping gas at a Texaco
service station in North
Texas, would leave Dallas on
a Braniff flight to Kansas
City that would change his
life forever and ultimately
land him in the Auctioneer’s
Hall of Fame. |
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Entry to List will Benefit
New Affiliates, Open Doors
for Existing Offices
July 16, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country has
announced that the United
States Small Business
Administration (SBA) has
approved the United Country
Real Estate franchise as one
of only three real
estate franchises to be
listed on its official
Franchise Registry. |
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United Country Real Estate,
CDR Debut Office in San
Miguel de Allende
June 26, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Often compared to
Santa Fe and Aspen in the
U.S., San Miguel de Allende
is valued as one of the most
unique and desirable areas
of Mexico by U.S. retirees
and vacationers. That said,
not many Americans know
about or have discovered
this fantastic area in
Mexico yet. |
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June 14, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Several United
Country Auction Services
auctioneers supported
the Ducks Unlimited 75th
National Convention in
Nashville May 30 through
June 3. The auctioneers
raised
over $300,000 during various
events to support the
organization this year,
breaking all-time records
for previous years. |
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May 23, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Owning property
is a large part of
fulfilling the American
dream,
but how about owning an
entire town? The offices of
United Country – Mason &
Morse Ranch Company of
Glenwood, Colo., and United
Country – Shobe Auction &
Realty of Lewistown, Mont.,
have entered into
a joint marketing agreement
to sell the entire town of
Pray, Mont., at an auction
event on-site on
June 27 at 6:30 p.m. |
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May 22, 2011(KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The National
Auctioneers Association (NAA)
has announced that
United Country Auction
Services’ marketing
division, United Marketing
Service, has received awards
in
multiple categories in the
2012 National Auctioneers
Association Marketing
Competition. Through this
annual
contest, which is presented
in partnership with USA
TODAY, the nation’s most
successful auction marketing
groups compete for coveted
awards highlighting the most
innovative and effective
auction marketing
campaigns. This year marks
the fifth consecutive year
that United Country has been
recognized
as award winners in the
competition. |
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May 22, 2011 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate has once again been
ranked in the top 10 percent
of all franchises nationwide
and named a 2012 Military
Friendly Franchise® by G.I.
Jobs Magazine. United
Country is among only 10
percent of franchise brands
nationwide to receive this
honor. The 2012 Military
Friendly Franchise® list,
which represents the top 10
percent of the nation’s
franchises that are doing
the most to recruit military
veterans, is determined
through exhaustive research
by the G.I. Jobs Military
Friendly Franchise team. The
research includes a
comprehensive survey of more
than 4,000 franchises. |
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April 9, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest seller of lifestyle
real estate, has continued
its expansion with the
opening of 12 new offices in
the United States and six
new affiliates in foreign
markets. On top of this
first quarter 2012 growth,
the company has shown a
23-percent increase in real
estate transactions during
same period. |
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April 9, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Mike Jones, president
of United Country Auction
Services
conducted the auction
portion of the 3rd Annual
DFW Sporting Clays Event at
the Dallas Gun Club
on Friday, March 30. The
event’s purpose was to raise
money to support the
missions of Homes For
Our Troops, a national
organization dedicated “to
helping those who have
selflessly given to our
country and have returned
home with serious
disabilities and injuries
since September 11,
2001.” The auction event
raised roughly $12,000 for
the organization’s cause. |
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April 2, 2012 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate, the leading
lifestyle real estate
company in the United
States, Costa Rica, Panama
and the resort areas of
Mexico, realized record
growth in 2011 and is seeing
the trend continue in 2012.
The largest international
real estate and auction
services company saw an
impressive increase in sales
and website visitors last
year, and received several
award recognitions. |
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February 16, 2012 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Several United
Country Real Estate offices
from Arkansas,
Missouri, Louisiana and
Oklahoma participated in the
2012 Arkansas State Ducks
Unlimited Banquet Saturday,
Feb. 11 in Rogers, Ark. The
event raised nearly $20,000
to support conservation
activities of the state
chapter of Ducks Unlimited. |
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February 16, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Franchise
Business Review announced
today that United
Country Real Estate ranked
#2 of all real estate
franchises and #18 in all
categories in the nation for
the
2012 Franchisee Satisfaction
Awards. This ranking is part
of a national project that
looks at franchisee
satisfaction of the
country’s most popular
franchise companies. |
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Auctioneer's Chant Motivates
and Captivates |
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February, 2012 – (USA Today) –
The mystique of an
auctioneer is one of
fast-talking
and repetitive numbers
bellowing through the air as
the mood builds to a
beautiful crescendo. |
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January 24, 2012 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Kevin Oldham
has been recognized as a
2012 Rising Star by KC
Business magazine. The third
annual program honors
outstanding Kansas City
leaders under the age of 40
in both for-profit companies
and not-for-profit
organizations. |
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January 16, 2012 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – The big story
in real estate and
investment circles for 2011
was land. According to
United Country Real Estate,
the nation’s largest seller
of land nationwide, land
sales
experienced a dramatic rise
in 2011, resulting in a
20-percent increase and
auction land sales that more
than doubled over 2010.
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October 17, 2011 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) –
“What can I do to stimulate my
business today and close more
sales?”
This is a question I am
asked nearly every day of my
professional life. The frequency
with which I
hear this question
is due in no small part to the
current economic conditions
affecting the U.S. |
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Aug. 1, 2011 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate® has achieved the rank of
sixth
largest real estate franchise
business in the United States, a
jump of two positions since the
last survey.
This leap has
occurred in just two years and
during what some have called the
most challenging real
estate
market in modern history. |
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July 25, 2011 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country
Auctions Services’ presence
was alive and well for
the fifth year in a row at
the National Auctioneer
Association’s 62nd
International Auctioneers
Conference
and Show in Orlando, Fla.,
on July 11 to 15. Aside from
the usual display exhibit,
members of United
Country’s management team
and affiliate auctioneers
participated in a variety of
capacities. |
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June 1, 2011 – (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate has been named one of
the top military friendly
franchises by G.I. Jobs in
their recently released 2011
Military Friendly Franchise
list. United Country
is among only 7 percent of
franchise brands nationwide
to receive this honor. The
list was compiled through
extensive research including
polls of thousands of
franchises nationwide and
precisely developed
methodology and criteria,
which revealed the top
franchises offering the most
incentive to America’s
veterans. |
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 - At
5,300 feet, near Mount
Haggin Wildlife Management
Area, is a unique old
west Montana mountain town.
Built for and operated as a
B&B / Guest Ranch facility,
the whole town has a
life of its own in a little
Montana mountain valley.
There are 10 total lodging
structures, in addition to a
livery, laundry facility,
mercantile, saloon, church
building and more. |
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May 15, 2011(KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The National
Auctioneers Association (NAA)
has announced that United
Country Real Estate’s
auction marketing division
has received awards in
multiple categories in the
2011 National Auctioneers
Association (NAA) Marketing
Competition. Through this
annual contest, which is
presented in partnership
with USA TODAY, the nation’s
most successful auction
marketing groups compete for
coveted awards highlighting
the most innovative and
effective auction marketing
campaigns. This year marks
the fourth consecutive year
that United Country has been
recognized as award winners
in the competition. |
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May 14, 2011 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Dan Duffy, chief
executive officer of United
Country Real Estate,
was recently a featured
speaker during the 2011 REAL
Trends Gathering of Eagles
conference held at
The Westin Denver Downtown,
May 4-6, 2011. The
exclusive, invitation-only
event is held annually and
this year attracted more
than 200 principals and CEOs
from the nation’s 500
largest residential real
estate brokerage firms plus
senior management of the
nation’s largest real estate
franchise organizations. |
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April 20, 2011 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Franchise
Business Review (FBR) has
named United Country Real
Estate among their 2011
Franchisee Satisfaction
Award winners. United
Country, the largest
integrated network of
conventional and auction
real estate professionals,
earned the No. 15 ranking
(Top 5 percent) in FBR’s Top
50 Franchises Report, a
comprehensive listing of the
nation’s leading franchises,
based on a
survey of more than 10,000
franchisees representing
more than 300 franchise
brands. |
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April 18, 2011 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, the largest
integrated network of
conventional and auction
real estate professionals in
the nation, announced today
the addition of 17
independently owned and
operated franchises to its
expanding international
network in the first quarter
of 2011. This growth
represents the most new
franchise appointments
within a given quarter for
the company since 2007, and
precedes the addition of an
anticipated 90 franchise
appointments in open market
areas through the next nine
months. Across the United
States the company has
formed franchise
partnerships
with leading independent
real estate agents and
auctioneers looking for new
platforms for growth. |
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April 6, 2011 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – The Land Report
has named United Country
Auction Services the
largest nationwide auction
company in their special
report, “America's Top 30
Auction Houses.” The
article, which appears in
the Spring 2011 issue,
highlights the nation’s
leading auction companies
based on land
auction sales. United
Country’s international
network of franchise offices
conducted more than 1,600
auctions in 2010, selling
more than 66,000 acres of
land at auction. |
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February 15, 2011 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – From farmers
and investors to retirees
and outdoor enthusiasts,
2010 found many people
planting money in the
soil—investing in land, that
is. According to United
Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
largest real estate company
specializing in land and
lifestyle properties, land
sales experienced a dramatic
rebound in 2010, resulting
in double-digit national
increases. |
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January 24, 2011 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – The Land Report
recently named United
Country Real Estate
among the top real estate
land brokerage companies in
the nation in the article,
“America's Best Brokerages.”
Closing approximately $1
billion in land sales
annually, United Country is
the largest land brokerage
listed in
this special report, which
evaluated the nation’s
leading land brokerages
based on 2010 sales results.
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November 1, 2010 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – Auctioneers
from across the nation
gathered in Kansas City,
Mo., October 25-26 for
United Country Real Estate’s
2010 Auction Summit. The
event featured 12 guest
speakers who provided
advanced real estate auction
training to the more than
100 attendees on a wide
variety of today’s most
relevant industry topics. |
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October 12, 2010 (Kansas
City, Mo.) – For the
majority of buyers today,
the search for real estate
begins online, and with the
growing number of highly
mobile consumers, the
ability to find the perfect
property on
the go, with both ease and
speed is essential. With
that in mind, United Country
Real Estate, the nation’s
leading resource for
non-urban, recreational and
lifestyle properties, has
announced the launch of
their
free iPhone application,
which allows users to
instantly browse United
Country’s MLS of more than
30,000
property listings throughout
all 50 states and Costa Rica
through its user-friendly
search functionality. |
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September, 2010 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) –
From the first successfully
transmitted television
picture to the first
printing of the literary
classic, The Great Gatsby,
1925 was a year of many
advancements and
innovations.
It was also in 1925 that
Roscoe L. Chamberlain set
out to change the real
estate industry with the
founding
of what would become
United Country Real Estate,
in Kansas City, Mo., with
the goal of giving people in
urban and suburban areas a
“roadmap to the country.”
His mission of providing a
more effective way to
market country and small
town properties has remained
the foundation of the
company throughout
its 85-year history |
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September, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) –
While national real estate
statistics in recent months
have indicated sluggish
sales growth, buyer interest
in lifestyle and rural
properties is still strong
based on the upward growth
of real estate search
traffic. According to United
Country Real Estate, the
nation’s leading national
lifestyle and rural real
estate company, traffic to
their portfolio of nearly
1,100 websites has tripled
in the last three years,
reaching three million
unique visitors per month. |
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July 28, 2010 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Peter D. Gehres, CAI,
CES, auctioneer with United
Country – Gryphon Realty &
Auction Group, was a
finalist in Men's Division
of the 2010 International
Auctioneer Championship (IAC). |
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June 23, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – Ducks Unlimited, the
world’s largest non-profit
organization dedicated to
conserving North America’s
continually disappearing
waterfowl habitats, and
United Country Real Estate,
the nation’s leading real
estate company specializing
in land and recreational
real estate, have recently
announced the launch of a
new recreational real estate
search engine. |
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June 24, 2010 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The National
Auctioneers Association (NAA)
has announced that United
Country Auction Services was
named winner of the 2010 NAA
Marketing Competition in the
business promotion and
advertising/public relations
categories. |
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June 4, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate has been named one of
the top military friendly
franchises by G.I. Jobs in
their 2010 Military Friendly
Franchise list, released
this week. The list was
compiled through extensive
research including polls of
thousands of franchises
nationwide and precisely
developed methodology and
criteria, which revealed the
top franchises offering the
most incentive to America’s
veterans. United Country is
among the top 10 percent of
all franchise systems
nationwide to receive this
honor, one of only two
national real estate
franchise brands featured on
the list and the only real
estate franchise offering
discounts and incentives for
veterans. |
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May 26, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – Michael Landreth, ALC,
CRS, GRI, and former
national president of
the REALTORS® Land
Institute, an affiliate
organization of the National
Association of REALTORS®
dedicated to the education
and accreditation of the
nation’s top land brokers,
has joined United Country
Real Estate |
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April 20, 2010 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – How’s the real
estate market? It seems
like a simple question,
but lately the answer has
been clouded by predictions,
outlooks and opinions more
varied than the weather.
It’s no wonder frustrated
buyers, sellers, investors
and real estate
professionals want fewer
predictions and more facts.
The fact is there’s good
news in the real estate
market. According to United
Country Real Estate,
a national real estate
franchise system with more
than 600 offices across the
U.S., double digit sales
increases in the first
quarter indicate an
undeniable upward shift. |
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April 15, 2010 – (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) –
The Land Report recently
named United Country Auction
Services the top auction
company in the nation in the
article, “America's
Top 25 Auction Houses.”
The article appears in the
Spring 2010 issue, released
this month. |
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March 30, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – United Country Real
Estate today announced an
exclusive partnership with
Land Unlimited, Inc., parent
company of LandBrokerMLS.com,
a leading public resource
for land real estate and
professional resource for
land brokers. |
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March 15, 2010 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – Ducks Unlimited, the
world’s largest non-profit
organization dedicated to
conserving North America’s
continually disappearing
waterfowl habitats, has
selected United Country
Auction Services as the
official auction company for
their 73rd Annual National
Convention to be held in
Gaylord, Texas, May 26-30,
2010. |
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February 22, 2010 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Shawn Terrel, vice
president of United Country
Auction Services, was named the
2010 Missouri State Auctioneer
Reserve Champion on Friday,
February 19 during the Missouri
Professional Auctioneer
Association’s Bid Calling
Championship held in conjunction
with the Winter Convention in
Columbia, Mo. |
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January 15, 2010 – KANSAS
CITY, Mo. – United Country
Real Estate has moved up
among the top-ranked
franchise organizations in
the United States and
globally, securing the No.
78 position in the 31st
Annual Entrepreneur
Magazine Franchise 500®
survey. Outperforming
hundreds of well known
brands, United Country has
continued upward growth in
the rankings for three
consecutive years. |
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January 15, 2010 – KANSAS
CITY, Mo. – Dan Duffy, chief
executive officer of United
Country Real Estate
has been named to the 2009
Inman News 100 Most
Influential Real Estate
Leaders list. The annual
report recognizes Duffy
among the top company
leaders who command the
attention of real estate
professionals through their
words and actions. |
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December 15, 2009 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – As a result of
a strategic alliance between
United Country Auction
Services, a division of
United Country Real Estate
(United Country), and
Colliers International
(Colliers), two commercial
call centers in Beckley,
W.Va., and Charleston,
W.Va., recently sold. |
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November 5, 2009 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) - For the
majority of buyers today,
the search for real estate
begins online, so the
ability to find the right
properties with ease and
speed is essential. United
Country Real Estate has
launched a series of
specialty marketing web
sites that make online
property searches less about
the search and more about
discovery. |
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October 26, 2009 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
was recently recognized for
excellence in public
relations by the Greater
Kansas City Chapter of the
Public Relations Society of
America. United Country Real
Estate received four awards
during the annual PRISM
Awards Gala Oct. 16. |
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October 26, 2009 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate, headquartered
in Kansas City, Mo.,
has announced its top ten
offices for the third
quarter of 2009. Among the
company’s nearly 650 offices
located in 42 states and
Costa Rica, the following
local affiliates finished
the third quarter of 2009
with
the highest gross
commissions: |
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August 31, 2009 (Kansas
City, Mo.) – United Country
Real Estate today announced
the expansion into their
first international market.
The company officially
launched its international
expansion strategy with a
market leading office in San
Jose, Costa Rica. |
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July 1, 2009 (Kansas City,
MO) – Many Americans dream
of owning a property or
permanently moving to the
country and among the list
of benefits that draws them
out of the city are the lack
of traffic, crime and stress
and the feeling of peace and
tranquility offered by the
country lifestyle. |
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July 21, 2009 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) –
The National Auctioneers
Association (NAA) elected
new officers and board of
directors last week at the
60th International
Auctioneers Conference and
Show in Kansas City. |
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June 2, 2009 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – The National
Auctioneers Association (NAA)
announced today that
United Country Auction
Services was named winner of
the 2009 NAA Marketing
Competition in the Online
Marketing Campaign category. |
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June 3, 2009 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – In their annual
AllStar Franchise List, Dun
and Bradstreet’s
AllBusiness.com, a leading
online resource for
businesses, named United
Country Real Estate the
top-ranked real estate
franchise system and in the
Top 20 among more than 2,500
global and national
franchise companies.
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Earth Asset offers a
comprehensive array of
specialized real estate
advisory services, including
planning and valuation
analysis for complex asset
issues such as conservation
and historic preservation
easements, family property
held in trust and
multi-ownership problem
solving. |
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based in Kansas
City,
has aligned with Colliers
International to provide
accelerated transaction
services to commercial real
estate clients, the
companies said Thursday. |
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January 1, 2009 – KANSAS
CITY, MO – Entrepreneur
Magazine recently unveiled
the 3oth Annual Franchise
500®, the world’s most
comprehensive franchise
ranking system designed to
assist entrepreneurs in
selecting the best franchise
opportunities.
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December 18, 2008 (KANSAS
CITY, MO, and BOSTON, MA) –
United Country Auction
Services, a division of
United Country Real Estate,
Inc. (United Country), and
Colliers International
(Colliers) announced today a
strategic alliance to
provide accelerated
commercial real estate
transaction services to
their respective commercial
real estate clients. |
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become
unsettled by
recent Wall Street losses,
identifying solid
alternatives for current and
future
investment has become
a
popular topic of
conversation.
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November 24, 2008 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – More than
54,000 FFA members and
guests from across the
country assembled in
Indianapolis this October
for the 81st National FFA
Convention. Among those
guests was United Country
Real Estate, a major sponsor
of the FFA and the primary
sponsor of the annual alumni
auction. |
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November 1, 2008 (KANSAS
CITY, Mo.) – The American
Cancer Society had another
big year in Dallas as the
community’s movers and
shakers gathered on October
4 for the 35th Anniversary
Cattle Baron’s Ball. The
event was held at Southfork
Ranch, home of television’s
J.R. Ewing and family. |
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October 16, 2008 (Kansas
City, Mo.) - United Country
Real Estate®, the nation’s
leader in recreational
real estate, and The
American Outdoorsman®, the
longest running television
program dedicated to outdoor
recreation, have joined in
an exclusive partnership
that will expose America’s
best recreational properties
for sale across the nation. |
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July 28, 2008 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – In 1925, Roscoe
Chamberlain founded United
Farm Agency with the mission
of providing city dwellers a
‘roadmap to the country.’ As
a means of introducing
country real estate for sale
to potential city buyers in
an age when travel was the
only option for research, he
created the nation’s
first-ever real estate
catalog to showcase these
dream country properties. |
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integrated real
estate
and auction services company
in the United States, proved
on August 2 that
real estate
buyers are out there
if you know how to reach
them. |
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July 24, 2008 (Kansas City,
Mo.) – Dan Duffy, chief
executive officer and
chairman of the board for
United Country Real Estate,
served as keynote speaker
for the 9th Annual Marketing
World: A Frost & Sullivan
Executive MindXchange, held
in Beaver Creek, Colo., on
July 20-23. He spoke to
approximately
5,000 leaders and
managers from top companies
such as Johnson & Johnson,
AT&T, St. Jude Medical, Blue
Cross & Blue Shield, Xerox,
IBM, Honeywell and Capital
One. |
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August 5, 2008 (KANSAS CITY,
Mo.) – Shawn Terrel, vice
president of United Country
Auction Services, has been
elected to the National
Auctioneer Association (NAA)
Board of Directors. The
election was held on
Thursday, July 10, at the
59th
International Auctioneers
Conference and Show in
Nashville, Tenn. |
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May 2008 (KANSAS CITY, Mo.)
– The National Auctioneers
Association (NAA) announced
today that United Country
Auction Services was named
winner of the 2008 NAA
Marketing Competition in the
Auction Printed Materials,
Multi-Color, Business
Liquidations category. |
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Kansas City, MO (PRWEB)
May 18, 2008 -- Between the
housing market and mortgage crunch that
have
left many sellers, buyers
and financial institutions
up against a wall, a
one-size fits all solution
may
be impossible to
establish. |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (February
5, 2008)—You hear it almost
daily: The real estate
market is slumping, and
things aren’t looking bright
in the future. |
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January 2008 - AUCTIONEER
MAGAZINE, Editor, Steve
Baska. Auctioneers Mike
Jones, CAI, GPPA, and
Shawn Terrel, CAI, AARE, are
helping United Country Real
Estate change the way the
traditional real estate
industry operates. Today
this giant real estate
company of 683 offices
teaches a blended approach
of considering auctions and
traditional brokerage for
every property. |
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With more than a million
supporters, Ducks Unlimited
is the world’s largest and
most effective wetland and
waterfowl conservation
organization with almost 12
million acres conserved. The
United States alone has lost
more than half of its
original wetlands − nature’s
most productive ecosystem −
and continues to lose more
than 80,000 wetland acres
each year. |
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January 1, 2008 - KANSAS
CITY, MO - Entrepreneur’s
Franchise 500®, the world’s first, best and
most
comprehensive franchise
ranking, has recognized
United Country® Real Estate
among its 2008
list of
top franchises. |
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Kansas City, MO- October 22,
2007- One bright spot in
today’s real estate industry continues to be
non-urban
markets, according to
statistics released by
United Country Real Estate this week. The company,
which specializes in
properties in small cities
and towns across the United
States, has shown strong
growth
in many areas of the
country in the first nine
months of 2007. |
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KANSAS CITY, MO- September
10, 2007- United Country
Real Estate, the only
national real estate
franchise system
specializing in real estate
throughout the small cities
and towns of rural America,
announced today that the
company has entered into a
strategic marketing and
listing strategy agreement
with Trulia.com, America’s
leading real estate vertical
search engine.
Additionally, United Country
is partnering with Google™
to provide its listing
content via Google Base to
google.com |
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Kansas City, MO - May 2007-
Mike Jones, United Country
Auction Services president,
joined fellow members
of the National Auctioneers
Association at the Nation’s
Capitol to participate in
“Auction Action on Capitol
Hill Day”. |
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KANSAS CITY, MO, July 26,
2007 – In a unique
partnership focused on
conservation, Ducks
Unlimited announced today
that United Country Real
Estate is joining DU’s ranks
as a proud sponsor. |
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August 1, 2006- KANSAS CITY,
MO- The Wall Street Journal
published the results of a
study of more than 2,500
U.S. based franchise systems
across all market segments
and named United Country
Real Estate to its coveted
list of 2006 “Top 25 High
Performers.” |
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August 1, 2006 – KANSAS
CITY, Mo. – Country and
micropolitan real estate
markets remain strong
despite
the declining numbers being
reported in more highly
populated urban and suburban
areas of the nation
according to United Country
Real Estate. |
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June 2, 2006 – KANSAS CITY,
Mo. – United Country Real
Estate announces the
availability of two new
training programs: United
Success Series!™ and United
Fast Start!™ . Developed by
United Country and
exclusively available to its
franchise partners, these
computer-based training
programs provide new and
seasoned real estate
professionals with
additional training and
resources to promote
advanced skills
to better serve buyers and
sellers of real estate. |
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February 28, 2006 – KANSAS
CITY, Mo. – United Country
Real Estate announces that
the company has secured
growth capital to support
its expanding network of
affiliate offices through
enhanced marketing and
ancillary services for the
benefit of its franchise
partners. |
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